I have to imagine that some fraction of WWJD evangelical Christians will be asking themselves sooner or later by this Fall: Hint: Who do you think he ...
:up: Interesting. I've also made a couple of (less detailed) attempts at a "syllabus": From a 2022 thread Ethics course in high school? https://thephi...
Both – in sum, context-sensitive, consistent and coherent, contradiction/fallacy-free, fact-based (as much as possible) and parsimonious discursive pr...
:smirk: :up: i guess "He" ain't so "Omni" after all ... Well, "if sin is in fact some act (or thought) contrary to the will of God" (OP), and if "God"...
What benefit to this life does anyone get from believing there is any "hell" (or afterlife) at all? Even if there is, Toothy, that doesn't change or i...
:roll: David Deutsch et al long ago convinced me that the Everettian interpretation (MWI) is both less inexplicable and more consistent with the exper...
Yes, (i.e.) the unbounded void of uncountable, endlessly swirling atoms ... natura naturans. Well, the alternative is 'to live carelessly', no? :spark...
I think (A) refers more broadly to eliminativism (e.g. D. Dennett, P. Churchland, et al) than specifically to Metzinger's 'representational-functional...
Well, I prefer (A) speculatively but (D) empirically; however, I find both (B) & (C) are incoherent (e.g. compositional fallacy & appeal to ignorance,...
:cool: 11April24 ("4-11") Today in Trumpenfreude: Given that over 60% of the electorate (re: 2020 & 2022 elections) are women AND that Criminal Defend...
I did not mention anything about "hatred" or "religion" so I don't know what you are talking about. My "ambigous" point was only that (at minimum) "he...
8April24 :cool: https://youtu.be/YmCA4Y8fUZo?si=gU6BzyksHFFlyB2o "Eclipse" (2:03) The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973 lyrics Roger Waters performers Pink ...
I wouldn't want to live an 'unexamined life' or without ever wholeheartedly loving anyone else. I also wouldn't want be a coward or servile. (I'm sure...
Yes, we are 'beings-in-media-res'. I prefer Jasper's notion of 'Existenz' as conditioned, or grounded, by what he calls the encompassing¹ or even bett...
Determinism does not necessarily exclude "free will"; rather it can be conceptualized as conditioning – enabling-constraining – free actions re: compa...
I'm still 'processing' your MMT and wonder what you make of Thomas Metzinger's self-model of subjectivity (SMS) which, if you're unfamiliar with it, i...
Interesting. I agree with "the coin ... logic". However, suppose "everything else ... objects of science/philosophy" instead tosses the "coin", so to ...
Today in Trumpenfreude: Past being prologue, on paper Loser-1 has lost $2 billion since last Friday 26March as Trump Media (DJT) stock crashed again o...
:up: Though it's been years since I've read his books, I'd always found Robert Alter's scholarship excellent (i.e. rewards rereading), especially e.g....
AFAIK: no, it cannot. Yes (e.g. facts, subjects). I agree, but for a different reason: reality itself is the negation of impossibility (e.g. facts in ...
Not so, not even close ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/851623 That's my story and I'm sticking to it because my gut and my head ...
This is incorrect even for today's neural networks' and LLMs' generative algorithms which clearly exhibit creativity (i.e. creating new knowledge or n...
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